Hi, I'm Walt Lockley. This is my online archive -- please browse around.

Most everything here is about architecture. Not the confusing academic "Arrrrchitecture" as normally discussed, but what actually happens between humans and their built surroundings.

If you believe people are more valuable than buildings, then the critical thing about architecture isn't how buildings look, it's what buildings do to people.

Interior architecture helps determine your quality of life. Built spaces control your physical choices, and frame your social roles and relationships. I've been working to understand this idea since I was a kid. (I had kind of an odd childhood to begin with.) By long process of elimination I found neither architects nor psychologists have good explanations for how this works, although they'll say they do.

On the outside, buildings have enormous potential to communicate. I strongly believe in two ideas that were driven out of fashion in the United States some time around 1935: the old idea that buildings express values and emotions and specific messages, and the old idea that buildings should be supportive and humane to their users -- that users actually matter.

Thanks for stopping by. If you find something you feel strongly about, please email me. I care about getting things right, and making sense, and like hearing from you.